<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >

<head>
    <title>CintaNotes Beta M8 Help</title>
	<link rel="stylesheet" href="help.css" type="text/css" media="all"/>
</head>

<body>

<table id="header">
<tr>
<td><img alt="CintaNotes" src="images/logo.png" /></td>
<td><h1>CintaNotes Help</h1></td>
</tr>
</table>

<div class="contents">
    <a href="#about">About CintaNotes</a><br/>
    <a href="#sysreq">System Requirements</a><br/>
    <a href="#install">Installing CintaNotes</a><br/>
    <a href="#taking">Taking notes</a><br/>
    <a href="#finding">Finding notes</a><br/>
    <a href="#managing">Managing notes</a><br/>
    <a href="#export">Exporting notes</a><br/>
    <a href="#import">Importing notes</a><br/>
    <a href="#config">Configuring CintaNotes</a><br/>
    <a href="#faq">FAQ</a><br/>
    <a href="#keys">Keyboard Shortcuts</a><br/>
    <a href="#copyright">Legal Notice</a><br/>
</div>

<h2 id="about">About CintaNotes</h2>
    <p>CintaNotes is a small and easy to use personal note management application. It is designed to be your indispensable assistant in the daily task of collecting numerous pieces of information, whatever they may be: your own thoughts and ideas, book and article excerpts, job postings, famous people quotes, research data, curious facts, Wikipedia definitions, blog posts, important news, you name it.</p>  
    <p>It lets you quickly jot down and tag any piece of useful information that you come across while reading documents or surfing the Net - just select the text and press Ctrl+F12. With CintaNotes, this is really all it takes to make a note! CintaNotes does not clutter your workspace with "sticky notes", all notes are neatly organized in an easily navigable list. And unlike browser-based tools like Google Notebook or Firefox plug-ins CintaNotes does not require a web browser to work - it works in Microsoft Word, Outlook, Adobe Acrobat - the "text-capturing magic" works in all applications that can copy text to clipboard!</p>
    <p>Retrieving information is also trivial: just open CintaNotes and start typing, and only notes which contain the text you type will remain in the list. More sophisticated search criteria are supported, like searching by title or by URL the note was taken from.</p>
    <p>CintaNotes is a totally self-contained application, meaning that you can put it on a flash drive and run it directly from there - in this way, your notes will always be with you.</p>
    
<h2 id="sysreq">System Requirements</h2>    
    <p>CintaNotes runs under Microsoft Windows&reg; 2000, 2003, XP and Vista. It does not require any runtime support.</p>

<h2 id="install">Installing CintaNotes</h2>
    <p>Installing CintaNotes is a straightforward procedure. After you download and run the installer, you'll be prompted to specify the folder where CintaNotes will reside (Program Files by default), then you'll be asked for the Start Menu folder name. After the installation is complete, check the "Launch CintaNotes" option to get rolling.</p>
    <p class="note">CintaNotes can also work without installation. You are free to copy the CintaNotes folder to any other location, create a shortcut to it and thus have two independent note managers (mind, however, that CintaNotes does not support running two instances of the application simultaniously, even from different locations). Also please pay attention that if you have Windows Vista and install CintaNotes into the Program Files folder, your note data and settings will be stored separately in the Application Data folder, so simple copying of the CintaNotes folder will result in a fully functional but empty application. You can find and copy your data files manually.</p>   
    <p>Installing CintaNotes does not require administrative privileges. However, you have to be an administrator if you want to install CintaNotes into the <em>Program Files</em> folder.</p>

<h2 id="taking">Taking notes</h2>
    <p>CintaNotes provides you with several ways to take notes. You can enter notes manually, clip text from other applications, or paste text from clipboard.</p>
    
    <h3>Entering notes manually</h3>
        <p>Open CintaNotes and select the "Add" command from the "Edit" menu (or just press the Ins key). CintaNotes creates a new note and displays the note editing dialog. In this dialog, you can enter note's title, note's text, note's link, and note tags. </p>
        <p>The "Link" is just some URL associated with the note. If CintaNotes recognizes contents of the "Link" field to be a URL, it displays a small blue arrow icon to the right inside of the "Link" edit box. Clicking on this icon will open the URL in your default browser. </p>
        <p class="note">There's also a "Browse Link" command in note's context menu, which enables you to browse the note's URL without opening the note edit dialog.</p>
        <p>The "Tags" field is used to categorize notes (see "Using tags to categorize notes" section below).</p>
        <p>None of these fields is required, so you are free to leave any of them empty. After you've entered the information you want to store, press "OK" (or Ctrl+Enter) to add the note to your notebook.</p>
<h3>Clipping text from other applications</h3>
        <p>Entering notes manually is great if you want to write down some brilliant idea of yours, but more often you just want to store a piece of information you've found elsewhere. This is the case where CintaNotes really shines. </p>
        <p>Provided CintaNotes is running in the background (usually it will reside in the system tray), all you need to do is mark the text you want to store and press Ctrl+F12. Et voil&agrave;! CintaNotes' main window pops up, focused on the new note with the text you've just selected. Some fields beside text are also filled automatically - the title of the source application window is taken as note's title, and if you clip text from a web page, the note's "Link" field automatically receives the URL of the page from the address bar of your browser (Internet Explorer, FireFox, Opera, Chrome and Safari are supported).</p>
        <p>At this moment you might want to edit the new note to add information to it or tag it. Or you can just press Esc to minimize CintaNotes and continue reading where you left off.</p>
<h3>Pasting notes from the clipboard</h3>
        <p>CintaNotes also supports direct text pasting from the Windows clipboard. Select the "Paste" command from the "Edit" menu or press Ctrl+V. CintaNotes creates a new note with the text from the clipboard. It also tries to determine which application has put the data into the clipboard, and if successful uses the application window title as the note's title. Unfortunately reliable clipboard data source detection is not always possible, and when CintaNotes fails to find the source window, the first line of the pasted text becomes also the note's title.</p>
        <p class = "note">Generally you should prefer clipping to direct pasting, because in the former case more data can be filled automatically for you.</p>
<h3>Editing and deleting notes</h3>        
        <p>You can go back to editing any note anytime - just double-click on it, or highlight it and press the Enter (or F2) key.</p>
        <p>Deleting notes is also straightforward - select the notes you want to delete, and press the Delete key (or select "Delete" from the "Edit" or note's context menu).</p>
<h3>Merging notes</h3>                
        <p>Oftentimes when you read a long text and make notes along the way, you end up with a whole bunch of short notes on the same topic. In many cases this is ok, but sometimes what you really want is just one note with all the text you've copied.</p>
        <p>In CintaNotes, you can merge these notes together via selecting all of them and choosing the "Edit/Merge" command (or pressing Ctrl+M). The selected notes will be merged into one. What exaclty happens here is the following: text of the second and subsequent notes is appended to the text of the first (earliest) selected note, then the appended notes are removed since they are no longer necessary.</p>
        <p class="note"> The "Merge" command is also accessible from the note's context menu. It is enabled only when two or more notes are selected.</p>

<h2 id="finding">Finding notes</h2>
        <p>By default, CintaNotes displays all notes which are in the notebook organized in a list.        
        <p>You can, however, specify a search string to limit the display to the notes containing this string. To begin entering the search string, just start typing in the main CintaNotes window. The focus will go to the search box, and the note list will be updated right as you type.</p>
        <p>Filtering/searching has a number of modes which specify what data fields are examined during the search. By default CintaNotes includes all fields into the search. You can change the search mode via clicking on the search mode icon in the search box and selecting a mode from the menu (or right-click in the search-box). Aside from the default mode, the following search modes are available:</p>
        <ul>
            <li><em>Title and Text</em> &mdash; display only the notes which contain the search string in their title or in their text;</li>
            <li><em>Title Only</em> (<em>Text Only</em>) &mdash; display only the notes which contain the search string in their title (their text);</li>
            <li><em>Date and Time</em> &mdash; search by note's creation date and time. Mind that the search is still textual, so you can enter "11/" to list all notes created in November (if your system uses the US time format), but you'll also see the notes created on 11th day of any other month. This limitation will be addressed in further CintaNotes versions;</li>
            <li><em>Link</em> &mdash; search in the "Link" field;</li>
            <li><em>Tags</em> &mdash; search in the "Tags" field. This is the search mode you use when you wish to list all notes having a particular tag.</li>
        </ul>
        <p>All search is done in a case-insensitive fashion. To reset the search filter and go back to the full list,click the <em>X</em> button inside of the search box, or press Esc. Adding a new note will reset the search filter as well.</p>

<h2 id="managing">Managing notes</h2>

<h3>Using tags to categorize notes</h3>
        <p>When you take a lot of notes every day, having all of them in a single list becomes unmanageable very quickly. Note tags are used to address this problem. While editing a note, you can specify any text in the note's "Tags" field. Later you can use part of this text to quickly filter out notes which don't contain it in their "Tags" field, thus greatly narrowing down your search</p>
        <p>For example, you might decide to tag all notes related to your current research project with a "res1" tag. So every time you take such a note, you put "res1" into the "Tags" field. After that 
            this tag will appear on the tags sidebar (see the section below), so you will be 
            able so highlight it, and CintaNotes will be displaying just your research notes. 
            Alternatively, you can turn on tag search (see "Finding notes" section) and type "res1&quot; 
            as your search string.</p>
        <p>If you want to associate two or more tags with a note, just put them all into the "Tags" separated 
            by spaces (comma and semicolon are also allowed, but are autoconverted to spaces). </p>
        <p class="note">Tags can include any symbols, not just alphanumeric. So "#1!" is a perfectly valid tag. Remember also that tags are case-insensitive, so whatever you enter into the "Tags" field is converted into lower case.</p>
        <p>It's possible to tag several notes at once: just select them and press F4 (or select the <em>Tag...</em> command from the context menu).</p>
 	<p>The <em>Edit/Replace Tags</em> command allows tag renaming, splitting, merging and deleting. Generally, each tag specified in the first edit box is replaced with all tags from the second edit box.</p>

<h3>Using tags sidebar</h3>
        <p>The Beta M8 version of CintaNotes introduces the <em>Tags Sidebar</em>. This is a handy tool for fast access to different tags and tag sets. It is basically the controller of the built-in tags filter.</p>
        <p>The sidebar is not displayed by default, you can turn it on using the <em>View/Tags Sidebar</em> menu command.</p>
        <p>There is a list of clickable labels on the sidebar. The first two labels are 
            &quot;All&quot; and &quot;Untagged&quot;, they are predefined and cannot be changed. When you click on the "All" label on the sidebar, you make sure that no tags filter is applied. The "Untagged" label will display only notes having no tags.</p>
            
        <p class="note">The <em>Untagged</em> label is your natural note inbox which gives you a quick and convenient access to recently captured information pieces that need categorization (provided you are using tags, of course).</p>
            
        <p>Right below is the list of all tags defined in the notes. This list displays all 
            tags in the alphabetical order. If the list is long and doesn&#39;t fit, two scroll buttons appear 
            (you can also scroll this list using the mouse wheel, and this is probably the most convenient way).</p>
        <p>Clicking on a tag activates it, and only notes having this tag will be displayed. Using Ctrl+Click, you can expand the tag selection to additional tags. 
            Keep in mind that <em>tag union</em> is used when multiple tags are selected (i.e. notes having <em>any</em> of the selected tags will be included.)</p>
        <p class="note">If you want <em>tag intersection</em> (to display only notes having <em>all</em> of the needed tags), pick one of the tags from the tag sidebar, switch to the tag search mode and enter other tags into the search box.</p>
        
        <p>Each tag label in the tags sidebar has a right-click context menu which allows you to rename or delete a given tag. When multiple tags are selected, you can merge them as well.</p>

<h3>Reordering notes</h3>
In the notes list, you can reorder selected notes using the Alt+Up and Alt+Down key.
It is also possible to move notes to the very top of the list (Alt+Home) and to the very bottom (Alt+Bottom).
The moving commands are also accessible from the context menu, as well as from the main <em>Edit</em> menu.

<h2 id="export">Exporting notes</h2>
        <p>CintaNotes supports note exporting in several ways:</p>
        <ol>
		<li><b>Unicode text file. </b>You can export notes from your notebook to a Unicode text file via the <em>File / Export</em> command.</li>
		<li><b>XML Exporting.</b> A more generic approach is to use XML format for further note processing. Choose <em>File / Export</em> main menu command, select "XML" from the available formats and enter the name of the XML file all notes will be exported into. This file can be viewed and processed with your favorite XML authoring program. CintaNotes can load this XML file back into itself with the <em>File/Import</em> command. </li>
		<li><b>Exporting as text via clipboard.</b> Select notes, copy them to the clipboard and paste them as text into any text processing application such as standard Windows Notepad.</li>
	</ol>
	
	<p>When using the <em>File / Export</em> command, you have a choice whether to export all notes or only the selected ones.</p>

<h2 id="import">Importing notes</h2>
        <p>You can import notes using the <em>File/Import</em> command. You can import notes from previously exported XML files, and from .dat files from other CintaNotes istallations.</p>
        
<h2 id="config">Configuring CintaNotes</h2>
        <p>CintaNotes lets you configure the fonts used in the main note list, the note color theme, and the way the program behaves when its window is closed or minimized.</p>
        <p>The <em>Color Theme</em> submenu of the <em>View</em> menu lets you select the most pleasant color theme. </p>
        <p>The <em>Note Appearance</em> command of the <em>View</em> menu opens a dialog box where you can pick fonts for note's header and text, and adjust now many note lines should be displayed directly in the list.</p>
	<p>The <em>Hot Keys</em> command from the <em>Options</em> menu enables you to change the default system-wide key combinations for clipping text, activating CinatNotes window and adding a new note.</p>
  	<p>If <em>Options/Silent Clipping</em> is activated, CintaNotes will not pop up after each clipping, but will display a balloon tip instead. Clicking on it would open CintaNotes.</p>
        <p>If you want CintaNotes to minimize itself to the system notification area (otherwise known as "system tray"), turn on the <em>Minimize to System Tray</em> option in the <em>Options</em> menu.</p>
        <p>Turn on the <em>Close to System Tray</em> option if you want the program to behave the same way when you close the window (that is, when you click on the window's <em>Close</em> button or press Alt+F4). When this option is turned on, closing the window will not exit the program. To exit CintaNotes, you will have to select the "File/Exit" command, or right-click on the CintaNotes icon in the notification area and select <em>Exit</em>.</p>
        <p>If you want CintaNotes window to be always on top of other windows, turn on the <em>Always on Top</em> option.</p>

<h2 id="faq">FAQ</h2>
    <dl><dt class = "faq">Does CintaNotes support Unicode?</dt>
        <dd>Yes, CintaNotes is fully Unicode-compliant and actually stores all text data in Unicode. But you have to make sure that the fonts used to display notes include the needed character sets. With default fonts there's usually no problem.</dd></dl>

    <dl><dt class = "faq">Will there be a version of CintaNotes with UI in my native language?</dt>
        <dd>We plan to add other languages support very soon, so stay tuned.</dd></dl>
   
    <dl><dt class = "faq">How can I make CintaNotes run automatically when Windows starts?</dt>
            <dd><span class="todo">Just copy the program&#39;s shortcut to your &quot;Startup&quot; Start Menu 
                folder. If you do not wish to see CintaNotes main window during the startup, Set 
                the &quot;Run&quot; property to &quot;Minimized&quot; (or specify the &quot;-m&quot; command line parameter). The "Run at Windows startup" option will be added to CintaNotes in one of the next versions.</span> </dd></dl>

    <dl><dt class = "faq">I work on multiple PCs. How can I get my notes synchronized without carrying the USB stick around?</dt>        
            <dd><span class="todo">You can use one of the numerous web-based file synchronization services, such as the <a href="www.getdropbox.com">DropBox</a>. Just put CintaNotes into the autosynced folder. In this scenario, you will get additional backup and 
            versioning for free.</dd></dl>           

    <dl><dt class = "faq">How do I select multiple notes?</dt>
        <dd>Use Ctrl+click, or Shift-Up/Down key combinations. Also if you navigate the list while holding the Ctrl key, you can toggle the selection on the current note with the spacebar.</dd></dl>

    <dl><dt class = "faq">How can I change the text-capturing hotkey from default Ctrl+F12 to something else?</dt>
            <dd><span class="todo">Use the <em>Options / Hot Keys</em> command.</span></dd></dl>
            
    <dl><dt class = "faq">How can I change the search mode in the search box without using the mouse?</dt>
            <dd><span class="todo">Press Ctrl+F and then Alt+Down to display the menu (or you can press Ctrl+Up/Down/PageUp/PageDown to switch search modes one-by-one.</span></dd></dl>
          
    <dl><dt class = "faq">What programming language is CintaNotes written in?</dt>
            <dd>CintaNotes is written in Visual C++ and builds on top of pure Window API calls. No libraries like .NET or MFC are used, what enables CintaNotes to take full control of resource usage and remain fast, lean, and self-contained.</dd></dl>

    <dl><dt class = "faq">What does "Cinta" mean?</dt>
            <dd>In Spanish, "la cinta" means "band" (or "tape"). In a sense, this is similar to the way CintaNotes represents notes: as a list. And, well, we just thought it would be a nice name ;-)</dd></dl>

    <dl><dt class = "faq">Is there a Linux or Mac version?</dt>
            <dd>No. CintaNotes relies heavily on Windows API, so porting it to other platforms seems unfeasible at the moment.</dd></dl>

    <dl><dt class = "faq">How can I report a bug?</dt>
            <dd>Please send a brief e-mail describing the problem to <a href="mailto:bug@cintanotes.com">bug@cintanotes.com</a>. We strive to deliver high-quality software and keep CintaNotes as bug-free as possible, so we and all other CintaNotes users will greatly appreciate your contribution.</dd></dl>

<h2 id="keys">Keyboard Shortcuts</h2>
<h3>System-Wide</h3>
    <dl><dt>Ctrl+F12</dt>
            <dd>Captures selected text from active application as a new note. Title of the source application window is used as note's title. This hot key is configurable.</dd></dl>
    <dl><dt>Ctrl+Alt+F12</dt>
            <dd>Activates CintaNotes window. This hot key is configurable.</dd></dl>

<h3>Main Window</h3>    
    <dl><dt>Ins</dt>    
           <dd>Opens a dialog for adding a new note.</dd></dl>    
           
    <dl><dt>F1</dt>
            <dd>Displays this help.</dd></dl>
            
    <dl><dt>Esc</dt>
            <dd>If filter is set, clears current filter to display all notes; otherwise minimizes CintaNotes.</dd></dl>                       
               
<h3>Notes List</h3>    
    <dl><dt>Up</dt>
        <dt>Down</dt>
        <dt>PageUp</dt>
        <dt>PageDown</dt>
        <dt>Home</dt>
        <dt>End</dt>
            <dd>Moves cursor selecting the note under cursor.</dd></dl>                 

    <dl><dt>Right</dt>
        <dt>Left</dt>
            <dd>Scrolls large notes.</dd></dl>                 
            
    <dl><dt>Ctrl+Up</dt>
        <dt>Ctrl+Down</dt>
        <dt>Ctrl+PageUp</dt>
        <dt>Ctrl+PageDown</dt>
        <dt>Ctrl+Home</dt>
        <dt>Ctrl+End</dt>
            <dd>Moves cursor without affecting selection.</dd></dl>
    
    <dl><dt>Shift+Up</dt>
        <dt>Shift+Down</dt>
        <dt>Shift+PageUp</dt>
        <dt>Shift+PageDown</dt>
        <dt>Shift+Home</dt>
        <dt>Shift+End</dt>
            <dd>Moves cursor extending selection.</dd></dl>
    
    <dl><dt>Ctrl+Spacebar</dt>
            <dd>Toggles selection on current note.</dd></dl>
            
    <dl><dt>Ctrl+A</dt>
            <dd>Selects all notes which currently appear in the list.</dd></dl>            
            
    <dl><dt>&lt;any character key&gt;</dt>
            <dd>Starts substring search using current search filter settings.</dd></dl>                

    <dl><dt>Ctrl+F</dt>
            <dd>Moves focus to the search filter box.</dd></dl>                
                       
    <dl><dt>Enter or F2</dt>
            <dd>Opens a dialog for editing the current note.</dd></dl>    
            
    <dl><dt>Del</dt>
            <dd>Deletes selected notes.</dd></dl>        
                       
    <dl><dt>Ctrl+C</dt>
            <dd>Copies selected notes into clipboard as text. Notes are copied in a format which includes note's creation time, title, text, and link. </dd></dl>
    <dl><dt>Ctrl+V</dt>
            <dd>Pastes clipboard contents as a new note, assigning current time as creation time, and copy of the first text line as title.</dd></dl>
            
    <dl><dt>Ctrl+M</dt>
            <dd>Merges two or more selected notes together. Text of the second and subsequent notes is appended to the text of the first (earliest) selected note, then the appended notes are removed since they are no longer necessary. <br />This operation is only available when two or more notes are selected. </dd></dl>

    <dl><dt>F3</dt>
            <dd>If currently focused note has a link, opens this link using the default web browser. </dd></dl>

    <dl><dt>Alt+Up</dt>
        <dt>Alt+Down</dt>
        <dt>Alt+Home</dt>
        <dt>Alt+End</dt>
            <dd>Moves selected notes up and down.</dd></dl>

          
<h3>Search Box</h3>            
    <dl><dt>Down</dt>
            <dd>Move focus to the notes list.</dd></dl>
  
    <dl><dt>Ctrl+Up</dt>
        <dt>Ctrl+Down</dt>
        <dt>Ctrl+PageUp</dt>
        <dt>Ctrl+PageDown</dt>
            <dd>Navigates search mode menu without opening it.</dd></dl>
            
    <dl><dt>Alt+Down</dt>
            <dd>Opens the search mode menu.</dd></dl>
    
<h3>Note Editor</h3>            
    <dl><dt>Up</dt><dt>Down</dt>
            <dd>Navigate the controls.</dd></dl>
            
    <dl><dt>Ctrl+Down</dt>
            <dd>Move focus to the <em>Tags</em> edit box.</dd></dl>
            
    
<h2 id="copyright">Legal Notice</h2>
    <div class = "legal">
    <p>This program is distributed on AS IS basis, and WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Cinta Software can not be made responsible for any, direct or indirect, damage caused by the program.</p>
    <p>CintaNotes is a free program for personal use. Do not redistribute it. Cinta Software reserves the right to change licensing terms in future.</p>
    <p>&copy;2008 Cinta Software. All rights reserved.</p></div>

</body>
</html>